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British Asian Muslim women, multiple spatialities and cosmopolitanism

British Asian Muslim women, multiple spatialities and cosmopolitanism Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 2015 Vol. 13, No. 1, 90–96 BOOK REVIEWS British Asian Muslim women, multiple spatialities and cosmopolitanism, by Fazila Bhimji, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills and New York, 2012, 162 pp., £55 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-137-01386-6 With this book, based on empirical research, Fazila Bhimji aims to challenge stereotypes and common understandings of British Asian Muslim women and to contribute to scholar- ship on cosmopolitanism, studies on second-generation South Asian Muslims in Britain and scholarship on spatialities. Her research included participant observation over a period of 12 months (2004–2005) in two mosques in Northern Manchester and the Multi-Faith Centre at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston. She conducted 25 in-depth interviews with second-generation women (aged 19–28) of Pakistani, Gujarati Indian, and Bangladeshi origin who regularly attended Islamic study circles in these religious spaces. In addition, she conducted inter- views with five relatively visible second-generation South Asian Muslim women in politics and performing arts. She also looked at the Internet discussion threats of two British-based Islamic online groups. Before she discusses her participant’s accounts (Chapters 3 – 6), Bhimji explores, by using discourse analysis, the ways in which South Asian British Muslim women are rep- resented in tabloid http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change Taylor & Francis

British Asian Muslim women, multiple spatialities and cosmopolitanism

Held, Nina
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change , Volume 13 (1): 3 – Jan 2, 2015
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2014 Nina Held
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1747-7654
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1476-6825
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10.1080/14766825.2014.892699
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Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 2015 Vol. 13, No. 1, 90–96 BOOK REVIEWS British Asian Muslim women, multiple spatialities and cosmopolitanism, by Fazila Bhimji, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills and New York, 2012, 162 pp., £55 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-137-01386-6 With this book, based on empirical research, Fazila Bhimji aims to challenge stereotypes and common understandings of British Asian Muslim women and to contribute to scholar- ship on cosmopolitanism, studies on second-generation South Asian Muslims in Britain and scholarship on spatialities. Her research included participant observation over a period of 12 months (2004–2005) in two mosques in Northern Manchester and the Multi-Faith Centre at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston. She conducted 25 in-depth interviews with second-generation women (aged 19–28) of Pakistani, Gujarati Indian, and Bangladeshi origin who regularly attended Islamic study circles in these religious spaces. In addition, she conducted inter- views with five relatively visible second-generation South Asian Muslim women in politics and performing arts. She also looked at the Internet discussion threats of two British-based Islamic online groups. Before she discusses her participant’s accounts (Chapters 3 – 6), Bhimji explores, by using discourse analysis, the ways in which South Asian British Muslim women are rep- resented in tabloid

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